Founded in February 2017, Digicita is India’s first venture studio.We play at the intersection of impact, innovation and technology.
We use design thinking principles to identify, shape and fund our own innovations.

We hatch our own high impact, futuristic, disruptive ideas.

Not incubate or accelerate those laid by others!

We take the seed of an idea, germinate and nurture it to market readiness!

Seek the context

Sow the idea

Nurture the model

Go to market

Digicita Niche

A brilliant idea that solves a user problem is not enough.

It needs risk capital and business shaping skills to make it market viable,without diluting the innovation at the altar of monetization!

Our DNA

Chief Dreamer

Vivek dreams of reimagining and reconstructing the digital experience for greater collaboration and productivity. He is best known for his industry first payment wallet innovation – ZipCash. ZipCash now powers OlaMoney. This is among his many other entrepreneurial ventures and early stage investments. He imagined the future of payments well over a decade before it boomed in India.

Master Technologist

Navin turns concepts into desirable and valuable digital products. Navin is an innovations technology veteran. He built ZipCash alongside Vivek.

Master Builder

Deepak shapes ideas into tangible digital technology innovations that fulfill user needs, want, hopes and desires. He is a veteran of the IT world with deep experience across both technology product development and sales with global leaders such as Microsoft, SAP and Citibank among others.

Advisors

Madhuri Sen consults on market strategy, brand positioning, communications and user insights research to Digicita and its innovations. She has over two decades of experience in marketing, communications, business management, market research and technology marketing. Madhuri is the founder of A.C.E Brand Strategist, a marketing, communication and brand strategy consultancy with its office in Mumbai.

Rajesh Sehgal mentors select Digicita initiatives and innovations. He has tremendous breadth and depth of experience managing early stage investments, private equity and public equity funds for over two decades across emerging markets, analysing various industries and businesses spanning different lifecycle stages of their lifecycle. Alhad is the managing partner of Equanimity Investments, an early stage venture fund based in Mumbai

Sonal Saxena is the chief advisor for advertising and digital marketing to all of Digicita's incubatees to drive their communications strategy and brand campaigns. She is a seasoned advertising and media professional with over two decades of consumer marketing, brand building and brand strategy experience in leadership roles across leading advertising agencies such as JWT and Grey. She recently set up Sakura.Earth, a strategy first, full service agency, based in Mumbai.

Poonam Bhat consults to Digicita on talent training and professional training across its incubatee leadership and teams. She has over a decade and half of deep training and organisational development experience with various large corporates across domains including Mahindra Holidays, AEGON Religare Insurance and Kotak Life. She now runs Josho Learning, an executive training institute focused on ongoing management education.

Alhad Ramchandra Oak advises and mentors Digicita and its fledgling ventures in corporate and legal matters right from the set-up stage. He has over two decades of corporate legal and secretarial experience. Alhad is the founding partner of LegaLogic Consulting, a law firm with offices in Pune and Mumbai.

Digicita in the News

Digicita Venture Studio was born out of insights on the missing link that stops India short of producing truly disruptive, audacious start-ups with large scale impact. With a view to bridge that gap Digicita was set up with:

An experienced team of entrepreneurs and innovators,

With its own captive capital, not having to ‘sell’ to angels at the design stage and,

Focused on ideas that are truly audacious: innovative, have global appeal and will make a huge social impact.

Entrepreneur Magazine speaks to Vivek Saxena, CEO and Co-founder of Digicita on his views about the impact of WhatsApp making an entry into the e-payments segment

Vivek Saxena, CEO and Co-founder, Digicita Venture Studio agrees with the finding of a Credit Suisse report that pegs the value of the India digital payments industry at $200m with fivefold growth projections to $1 trillion by 2023. In reaction to whatsapp's recent entry, Vivek notes that the messaging application’s simplicity, intuitive navigation and ease-of-use have made it the darling of teenagers and elders alike. He therefore concludes, “If the past is anything to go by, the payments implementation too would be adopted by the consumers and change the way India makes P2P payments, which in my mind also includes payments to small merchants such as the kirana stores.”

In the race to stay ahead in India's hyper-competitive online taxi services space, ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd, the owner of Ola, has acquired a majority stake in mobile wallet company ZipCash. ZipCash was one of Vivek's earliest disruptive innovations, that changed the digital payments landscape. He created one of the earliest digital wallets in the world that was among the first to receive RBI authorisation to issue pre-paid instruments (PPI) in India. ZipCash now powers Ola Money.